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The Anti-Apple Fatwa

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Sohrab Ahmari

July 3, 2012 12:11 p.m. ET

"I'm not political," the late Steve Jobs proclaimed in a 1984 interview. "I'm people-oriented." But Apple is now embroiled in political controversy thanks to recent news that an Alpharetta, Ga. Apple store employee refused to sell an iPad to an Iranian-American customer and her uncle after hearing the two speak Persian.